PARIS

The city I've wanted to visit all my life. Blame the media and whatnot for all the hype.

The city is very good for sightseeing and walking around all day till your feet hurt like mad (but that's how you know it's been a good day, right?). Perhaps the most impressive sight I saw when there was the Notre-Dame Cathedral. Very amazing architecture - very detailed and it struck me with awe at how a cathedral this huge and beautiful was built way back then. Breath-taking.

GERMANY

I liked Heidelberg best tho - small and cosy like grandma's cottage with milk and biscuits by the crackling fireplace. Very small town - the whole town can fit into one postcard picture or onto a keychain the size of a 20cent coin! Just castle, bridge, church, one main road Hauptstrasse - 20min walk from one end to the other, and then the modernized part with the Hauptbahnhof.

Did you know that Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, the guy who invented the Bunsen burner which we all use in Kimia labs today, was a professor from the University of Heidelberg?

....

Frankfurt, we didn't see so much of. I doubt the Romer and the Romerberg and St Paul's Church is all there is to Frankfurt. Not as personal as Heidelberg but I like Germany in general. What more, our hostel landed us smack in the middle of the red-light district. WOS - World of Sex right next to our front door and a whole street, both sides lined with XXX shows.

And a tram missed Hansel by an inch on his left side. Just like that.

The Merc car my dad drives around in KL like it's so posh and classy... well in Germany, they use those for taxis.

TRAVEL TIP #1: We may look cosy there but sleeping in airports and spending nights in train stations is prolly not a good idea if you plan to do some heavy sightseeing the next day - you'll be too sleepy to enjoy the city.